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Kavanaugh is a reminder: Accused sexual harassers get promoted anyway

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon

About a week after hearing emotional testimony from accuser Christine Blasey Ford and a limited FBI investigation, the Senate narrowly voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.

For millions of American women – both those who’ve survived assault and those who have experienced workplace harassment – seeing a man...

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Kavanaugh confirmation a reminder: Accused sexual harassers get promoted anyway

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon

One day after hearing emotional testimony from accuser Christine Blasey Ford, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to become a U.S. Supreme Court justice pending an FBI investigation.

For millions of American women – both those who’ve survived assault and those who have experienced workplace...

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Is a polygraph a reliable lie detector?

  • Written by Jessica Gabel Cino, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Georgia State University
Does your body give away if you're lying or not?AP Photo/Edward Kitch

Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who’s accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, released the results of a polygraph test focused on the decades-old incident. They suggest that Ford’s responses to two questions about her...

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Lo que deben saber los adolescentes sobre seguridad cibernética

  • Written by Sanjay Goel, Professor of Information Technology Management, University at Albany, State University of New York
Todos utilizan la tecnología, pero no todos están tan seguros como deberían.Akhenaton Images/Shutterstock.com

Los estudiantes en el colegio hoy en día conocen mejor la tecnología que el adulto medio, según distintas investigaciones.

Y aunque muchas personas piensan que los adolescentes utilizan, en lo...

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50 years of the Boeing 747: How the 'queen of the skies' reigned over air travel

  • Written by Janet Bednarek, Professor of History, University of Dayton
The 747 takes off on its maiden voyage. AP Photo

On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled out of its custom-built assembly plant in Everett, Washington. From the beginning, everything about the plane once known as the “queen of the skies” was big.

It was the first wide-body “jumbo jet” ever built, involving about...

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How the media encourages – and sustains – political warfare

  • Written by Kyle Jensen, Associate Professor of English, University of North Texas
The quiet consumption of news can sustain a polarized political environment.Lightspring

Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been waging war against the American press by dismissing unfavorable reports as “fake news” and calling the media “the enemy of the American people.”

As a countermeasure, The Washington...

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On the Supreme Court, difficult nominations have led to historical injustices

  • Written by Calvin Schermerhorn, Professor of History, Arizona State University
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sept. 27, 2018.AP/pool image, Michael Reynolds

Far from being unusual, the hurried and partisan Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh mirrors several notable examples of similarly politicized confirmations in U.S. history.

Those conflicts, which...

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Is it immoral to watch football?

  • Written by Francisco Javier López Frías, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University
What ethical issues should you consider when watching football?Chris Brooks/flickr.com, CC BY-ND

For a large swath of Americans, fall means football. But, as in previous years, this season’s football has been mired in controversy.

Most notable of these has been the Colin Kaepernick case. Kaepernick has accused the NFL of colluding to keep him...

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US generosity after disasters: 4 questions answered

  • Written by Patrick Rooney, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
A sign posted in New Bern, North Carolina after Hurricane Florence. AP Photo/Gary D Robertson

After 9/11, Americans responded with the kind of outpouring of generosity usually reserved for the most powerful hurricanes and earthquakes. Ever since those terrorist attacks, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has tracked...

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Cryptocurrencies, blockchains and their dark side: 4 essential reads

  • Written by Bryan Keogh, Economics + Business Editor

Crytocurrencies, after a wild ride, may be at a tipping point.

Bitcoin and other digital currencies exploded in 2017 only to spend much of 2018 losing a large chunk of those gains. A unit of bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, climbed from under US$900 at the end of 2016 to a high of almost $20,000 in December 2017 and has since plunged to a...

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